G U I L L E R M O P É R E Z

Guillermo Pérez (Barcelona, 1980) is
a conductor, researcher, specialist of early keyboards and virtuoso player of
the organetto, the iconic and
expressive portative organ from the 14th and 15th
centuries’ European music culture. He graduated from Barcelona and Seville
Conservatories and studied later in Milan, Rome and Toulouse. During the last
15 years he developed his own technique, becoming one of the rare specialists
of his instrument with a very personal style, refined and poetic. With his
ensemble Tasto Solo, he creates innovative programs, with astonishing
sonorities, which the group performs regularly in most part of top European festivals and concerts
venues. He also collaborates with
prestigious international groups including Mala Punica, J. Savall & Hespèrion XXI, Micrologus, The Unicorn
Ensemble, Diabolus in Musica, ClubMediéval. He
recorded over 20 CDs for Aeon, Alia-Vox, Musica Ficta, Naïve, Passacaille, Pneuma, Raum-Klang,
Ricercar and Zig-Zag Territoires labels.

Guillermo Pérez is very committed to
teaching organetto, medieval and
early Renaissance music. Between 2010 and 2013 he organized the “International
Cursus of Medieval Music” at the Centre Itinérant de Recherche sur
les Musiques Anciennes (CIRMA) in Moissac,
France. From 2011 to 2015 he has been a guest teacher at the Centro Studi Europeo di Musica
Medievale “Adolfo Broegg” in Spello, Italy. Between 2013 and 2016 he has taught medieval
music at Toulouse Le Mirail University. In 2017 and 2018 he leads a project on
medieval motets conducting a group of young singers from Girona’s Conservatory
in Spain. He also lectures and offers workshops at main institutions including
Wien, Moscow and Orsay Conservatoires, the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, the Academia
de Órgano Julián de la Orden, The Grieg Academy University of Bergen and
the Essen Folkwang Universität der Künste.

Guillermo Pérez is
currently presenting new programs covering his work as a performer and
researcher on repertoires from 1300 to 1550.
He is also engaged on contemporary music in collaboration with the renowned
Spanish composer José-María Sánchez-Verdú, including the world premieres of Totentanz-Buch
(2015, Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca), Tous les Regretz (2016, Museo del Prado - Exposición El Bosco), and
Chanson bleue (upcoming release). Since
2016, he (re)constructs with the Italian organ
maker Walter Chinaglia medieval and early Renaissance organetti and organ models. In 2012 they brought to life a
surprising organ designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503 and preserved in one of
his personal notebooks, the Codex Madrid II (fol. 76r) from the Biblioteca
Nacional de España.